Word: pandemonium
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Within minutes, Pearl Harbor was pandemonium: explosions, screams, tearing steel, the rattle of machine guns, smoke, fire, bugles sounding, the whine of diving airplanes, more explosions, more screams. With Battleship Row afire, Fuchida's bombers circled over the maze of Pearl Harbor's docks and piers, striking again and again at the cruisers and destroyers and supply ships harbored there...
...through the third year of the worst slump to hit the industry in more than a decade, account reviews have become a harrowing aspect of business as usual, one that some agency people call the "dance of death." Observes Frank Stanton, the former chairman of Simmons Market Research Bureau: "Pandemonium is a good word to describe the business now." Shaken by the instability in the industry, many agencies are only making the problem worse by retreating to ideas that seem safe -- but that may bore consumers and further alienate clients...
...imagine anything more pressing right now," said Jack S. Levy '92, vice president of the organization. "One and a half million to 2 million refugees are amassed at the Iraqi border right now. There's complete pandemonium there...
...shuddering pandemonium abruptly ended in an uncanny stillness "almost as awesome as the dreadful sound of the quake," William Bronson relates in The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned. Dazed men still in nightclothes stumbled out of dwellings along with women holding babies. The air was powdery. Many streets had gaping fissures. Few residents could get any idea of the extent of what had happened. People milled about, as an observer put it, "like speechless idiots." Beyond view, the injured and trapped began to cry out, and gradually the able-bodied undertook rescues...
Clamor is the usual condition in commodities pits. Last week, however, the soy-bean trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade erupted in pandemonium as the C.B.O.T. issued an emergency order, its first in a decade, that July futures contracts in excess of 1 million bu. be liquidated. In one day soybean-futures prices plunged 5%, to $6.86 per bu. Traders speculated that a single buyer was trying to corner the market or drive up prices. The suspected culprit: Ferruzzi Finanziaria, Italy's second largest privately held company and the third largest U.S. soybean processor since it bought Indiana...